Links for 27-09-2006
SETI vs. METI, feral cities, the Sterling and Rucker roadshow, Ken MacLeod interview snippets…
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1 – Still LivesHal Duncan trots out a lengthy poem that makes me feel positively ashamed for ever having so much as attempted to write any of my own. The men are separated from the boys at pen-point…
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“Well, here’s the thought I’ve been recently incubating: Linden Lab is already planning another virtual platform.” Hmmm. Could be interesting – SL going open source?
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“…refurbishing an old valve amplifier is an easy way to experiment with the sound of valve amps without making the major investment of buying a new one.” Oh, for more hours in the day…
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4 – Feral Cities“The feral city may be a phenomenon that never takes place, yet its emergence should not be dismissed as impossible.” Heavy stuff, via Bruce Sterling.
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“There’s no magic formula to building a trusting relationship. But there are a couple tricks to help you gain trust in a hurry–even if you don’t deserve it.” Not that *I* need any help in this department, of course…
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6 – Clouds!“Lenticular clouds are simply one more example of the beauty and complexity that can be the result from a simple process in nature.” Gallery of weird and wonderful cloud formations, via the Kircher Society.
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Does what it says on the tin.
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“SF Signal had the opportunity to turn the meme-tables on the good folks at Meme Therapy, putting them under the microscope like they’ve done to so many others…”
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Nooooo! Say it ain’t so!
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10 – Walker Takes Shape“Here he is, ladies and gentlemen, fresh from the 3D printer and ready for his close-up…” SecondLifer gets a fabbed miniature of his avatar made. The membranes are becoming more permeable…
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11 – Writing Insight“This morning I came across two bits of insight about the business of writing that I found worth repeating.” Chris Roberson shares some good advice for writer newbs, especially genre types.
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Oh, to be a fly on the wall at *that* meeting of minds…
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13 – Annotating the Earth“Thanks largely to Google Earth, released by Google in 2005, finding information linked to geographical locations is becoming far easier.” This trend is set to run for some time, IMHO.
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“The flow of copper in the brain has a previously unrecognized role in cell death, learning and memory [...] findings suggest that copper and its transporter, a protein called Atp7a, are vital to human thinking.”
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Does what it says on the tin.
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“…in just one year, the perennial sea ice cover in the Arctic Ocean has shrunk by nearly three-quarters of a million square kilometres…”
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“Jack Neal’s parents only discovered their son’s successful bid when they received a message from eBay about the Barbie pink Nissan Figaro.”
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“A team of British and US scientists have discovered that the gap in the Van Allen radiation belts is formed by natural wave turbulence in space, not by lightning.”
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“The suggestion that ETI’s might be using gigantic calling cards that orbit around suns to say “hi” is a fascinating idea — and arguably more plausible than the notion that we should be listening for radio signals.”
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Listen in silence or wave across an empty hallway? Centauri Dreams seeks your opinions on the SETI/METI question.
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“Open source sounds like a great idea, in theory. But so does socialism. And while I’m not ready to throw in the towel on socialism either, let’s just say that thus far it hasn’t performed as well in the real world as it does in a laboratory setting.”
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